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The Austin insurtech writes parametric policies for power outages and severe weather, betting that climate volatility is a growing line of business.
The Austin direct-lithium-extraction developer traded a minority stake in a Chilean asset for strategic backing from a European energy major.
The Austin platform gives restaurants upfront capital in exchange for food-and-beverage credit it resells to diners. Its newest backer is an insurer's investment arm.
The Austin travel-tech company added to its Series B as it pushes WanderOS, the software layer it uses to standardize service across independently owned homes.
The latest tally of the largest U.S. financings was dominated by AI inference and frontier models, with Austin-linked names threading through the list.
The Austin company, which builds commercial medical products for healthcare providers, drew a Series A led by Umami Capital.
Khosla Ventures led the Series A for a startup using billions of hours of gameplay to teach machines spatial reasoning - the same physical-AI problem Austin's robotics scene is chasing.
The clinical-stage Austin biotech says the round will fund global Phase 3 trials of a drug it is positioning against Roche's blockbuster Vabysmo.
The Austin IT-operations software maker stayed founder-led and profitable as it raised secondary capital from Wellington, Sequoia, ICONIQ and others.
The Austin startup's chemistry-based technology aims to squeeze more crude out of existing shale wells, and Chord Energy led the funding.
Crunchbase data shows the city's startups raised record capital, with AI, robotics and advanced manufacturing leading the pack.
The Series H values Anthropic at $965 billion post-money and arrives days before a confidential IPO filing.
The startup's agents answer calls, book jobs and chase estimates for service businesses — and it's on track to book $1 billion in work this year.
Four of the five largest venture rounds ever recorded closed in a single quarter, and AI took the vast majority of the dollars.
The Austin defense startup more than doubled its valuation as the Pentagon leans on cheaper, software-defined naval hardware.
Silicon Labs veterans bet that AI can capture the institutional know-how walking out the door as experienced workers retire.
Musk's AI company closed its Series E above target and bought a third Memphis building to expand the world's largest single-site training cluster.
